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"That man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds is fit for treasons, strategems and spoils. The motions of his spirit are as dull as night and his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music."

William Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice (V-i-83-88)

"We don't need no stinkin' lake cabin."
The Eddies

"Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them." - Richard Strauss

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley

"Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself." - Igor Stravinsky

"Hell is full of musical amateurs." - George Bernard Shaw

"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the accordion, and doesn't." - Al Cohn

"To be a musician is a curse. To NOT be one is even worse." - Jack Dany

"Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already." - Gustav Mahler to Bruno Walter, who had stopped to admire mountain scenery in rural Austria.

"I would rather play 'Chiquita Banana' and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve." - Xavier Cugat

Victor Borge, playing to a half-filled house in Flint, Michigan: "Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats."

Oscar Wilde: "If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation."

Mark Twain: "Wagner's music is better than it sounds."

Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player: "God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way."

Claude Debussy: "In opera, there is always too much singing."

Giacchino Rossini: "Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!"

Bing Crosby: "I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the 20th century that has made giant strides in reverse."

The 9th Annual
Potluck and Free Concert
Down by The Riverside

"...I soon got used to this singing, for the sailors never touched a rope without it. Sometimes, when no one happened to strike up, and the pulling, whatever it might be, did not seem to be getting forward very well, the mate would always say, 'Come men, can't any of you sing? Sing now and raise the dead.' And then some one of them would begin, and if every man's arms were as much relieved as mine by the song, and he could pull as much better as I did, with such a cheering accompaniment, I am sure the song was well worth the breath expended on it. It is a great thing in a sailor to know how to sing well, for he gets a great name by it from the officers, and a good deal of popularity among his shipmates. Some sea captains, before shipping a man, always ask him whether he can sing out at a rope."

-Herman Melville, Redburn, chapter 9 (1849)